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I work in social services and live in the Midwest with my lovely wife and 3 wonderful cats.
Not opposed to living long enough to see the last priest strangled with the entrails of the last politician.
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Siobhan: Perhaps not. Maybe now cops will realize that we are united in our shared affinity for brown sugar water and we can enter a new era of trust and respect.
Chigau: Hah! Yep, I wasn’t alive. I’m stunned this didn’t result in world peace.
Marcus: I ABSOLUTELY thought of Hicks. Pepsi’s really going hard after that feel-good protester dollar – huge market.

My first thought? “Who the hell’s Kendall Jenner, and why should I care?” (Don’t tell me, I know it’s something to do with television, I can look it up; it’s just another sign that I don’t really live in the 21st century).
But back to Pepsi – a commentator on CBC radio’s “As it Happens” last night pointed out something rather obvious (but important): this wasn’t just a single, horribly misguided idea put forward by some marketing writer; this was a big-deal production that went through many layers of executive approval. And apparently nobody, in all that time, said “ummm … you guys do know that this is REALLY offensive, right?” Talk about the danger of “group think.”